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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A Man Leaning on a Structure, later 1760s

Not on View

Medium

pen and dark brown ink on fragment of a printed title page

Dimensions

overall: 16.1 × 9.9 cm (6 5/16 × 3 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1983.27.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Provenance

Paul Proute Gallery, Paris, 1982/1983; purchased by NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

1983: Dessins Originaux Anciens et Modernes, Paul Proute, Paris, 1983, no. 15.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 94.

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